Tasmania's first female premier, Lara Giddings, said the state was leading the way.

"That just shows what a turnaround from when I was first elected back in 1996 when it was still a novelty to be electing women to parliament, that today we have 52 per cent of our Parliament in the Lower House made up of women."

She said more women were putting their hand up as candidates, and many people voting for them.

"Obviously the public are at a point where they want to have female representatives and you want the balance, 52 per cent is pretty good, you don't want too many more women in one sense because you also want to have that male balance and perspective as well."

Both Green members are women and the majority of Labor's representatives.

But only four out of 13 Liberal members are female.

"The Liberals don't have an approach of trying to assertively encourage gender balance," Mr Bonham said.

"I think Labor has tended to work harder on trying to bring up female representation in parliaments throughout the country generally."